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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[ Canto 4, Ch. 14 ]
TRANSLATION
You are so much devoted to the demigods, but who are they? Indeed, your affection for these demigods is exactly like the affection of an unchaste woman who neglects her married life and gives all attention to her paramour.
TEXTS 26-27
विष्णुर्विरिञ्चो गिरिश इन्द्रो वायुर्यमो रविः ।
पर्जन्यो धनदः सोमः क्षितिरग्निरपाम्पतिः ॥२६॥
एते चान्ये च विबुधाः प्रमवो वरश्चापयोः ।
देहे मवन्ति नृपतेः सर्वदेवमयो नृपः ॥२७॥
viṣṇur viriñco giriśa indro vāyur yamo raviḥ parjanyo dhanadaḥ somaḥ kṣitir agnir apām-patiḥ
ete cānye ca vibudhāḥ prabhavo vara-śāpayoḥ dehe bhavanti nṛpateḥ sarva-devamayo nṛpaḥ
viṣṇuḥ—Lord Viṣṇu; viriñcaḥ—Lord Brahmā; giriśaḥ—Lord Śiva; indraḥ—Lord Indra; vāyuḥ—Vāyu, the director of the air; yamaḥ—Yama, the superintendent of death; raviḥ—the sun-god; parjanyaḥ—the director of rainfall; dhana-daḥ—Kuvera, the treasurer; somaḥ—the moon-god; kṣitiḥ—the predominating deity of the earth; agniḥ—the fire-god; apām-patiḥ—Varuṇa, the lord of waters; ete—all these; ca—and; anye—others; ca—also; vibudhāḥ—demigods; prabhavaḥ—competent; vara-śāpayoḥ—in both benediction and curse; dehe—in the body; bhavanti—abide; nṛpateḥ—of the king; sarva-devamayaḥ—comprising all demigods; nṛpaḥ—the king.
TRANSLATION
Lord Viṣṇu; Lord Brahmā; Lord Śiva; Lord Indra; Vāyu, the master of air; Yama, the superintendent of death; the sun-god; the director of rainfall; Kuvera, the treasurer; the moon-god; the predominating deity of the earth; Agni, the fire-god; Varuṇa, the lord of waters, and all others who are great and competent to bestow benedictions or to curse, all abide in the body of the king. For this reason the king is known as the reservoir of all demigods, who are simply parts and parcels of the king's body.